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| Summer 2006 |
Anyway, she is moving to Astoria in a few months, so we took a mini road trip up through Tillamook (mmm, cheese!) and stopped in Astoria so I could see her future home city! I hadn't ever been that far up on the Oregon coast - it's so beautiful there! We then looped around and headed over to Portland for the night.
Do you have any idea how much I love Portland? Because it is a lot. A lot, a lot, a lot. I never thought any city would beat out Seattle for me - but Portland managed to do that. I was especially excited to be there on a weekday because I really enjoy (ok, am obsessed with) the food cart scene and a lot of them are closed on the weekends or aren't open at convenient times. In case you didn't know, Portland has about a million food carts all around the city. You can read about them here: http://www.foodcartsportland.com/ In the end we didn't really end up going to too many of the carts, but more about that in a bit.
We took the Street Car up to Bridgeport Brewery for dinner. I'm not really a big beer drinker, but I'm starting to explore the world of beer a little and actually finding a few that I like. We split a sampler so that we could try a bunch of different ones. I didn't care for most of them, which I expected, but there were actually three different ones that I liked pretty well! Two of them were the seasonal beers - Nightcap and the Ebenezer, and the third was their ESB but I liked that the least of the three. The Nightcap was actually good enough to order a pint of but I wasn't able to finish it due to all of the delicious food I had consumed prior to its arrival.
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| Bridgeport Sampler |
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| Bridgeport Vegan Bowl |
We were out late and ended up unintentionally eating at food cart - Adam's Falafel or Gyros or something. The biggest downside to Portland? I can't seem to find anywhere the does late-night pizza delivery! But anyway, the Falafel Sandwich I had was pretty good, it had fresh cut french fries in it which I found a little strange but tasty. There was definitely too much garlic sauce on it though, so take note - if you ever find yourself at Adam's Something or Another on SW 3rd and SW Pine make sure to ask for less of the sauce.
My food highlight of the trip was Flavour Spot. I have been wanting to go there forever and ever but never seem to make it. I'm not sure why, because they have 3 locations so you'd think it would have been easy at some point. It's probably because my favorite Portland breakfast restaurant is a half block away and I end up in a tug of war in which Bijou Cafe always wins. But not this time! Flavour Spot is a waffle cart, but this particular waffle cart also makes vegan waffles, and they also serve them wrapped around vegan sausage! For those of you who could care less about vegan friendly option, they mostly serve regular old waffles with regular old meat choices. But that's not nearly as exciting. I was slightly concerned because a hand-held waffle sandwich just sounds messy - but they really pull it off. Instead of maple syrup they have a maple spread so it doesn't drip everywhere. I think it was one of the best vegan waffles I have had - my only complaint is that if you don't eat it fast enough the bottom gets a little soggy sitting in the foil. But that's not really much of a complaint.
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| Flavour Spot Vegan Waffle and Sausage Sandwich |
I suppose we could have visited the food carts near PSU for lunch, but I decided that someone can't come visit Oregon and not try Cafe Yumm (there is one in Portland now, also near PSU), so we ended up there for lunch so that Allison could experince the joy that is Yumm Sauce. I don't really know what to say about this one except that it is delicious. I find it appalling that I brought my mom and sister here and neither of them ordered the bowls - that's just wrong.
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| Original Yumm Bowl |
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